In 1935 he was living in Chipley where he managed a Christo Five-and-Dime store making $18 a week. That same year Howard and Martha were married. Around 1939 they move to Moultrie, GA to manage a Christo. Later, they moved to Panama City, FL and manage a store there. By 1941 Howard was working at Tynall Field and they were living in a two story house on the beach.

Graveyard/Tombstone

11/1/1948

Riverside Cemetery, Marianna FL (Jackson County)

40 yrs old

R. Howard Walker - b. July 22, 1908 - d. Nov. 1, 1948

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Remious, his family, and friends. For example, Remious is 1 years old when The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)

Age

Date

Event

9

1917

Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.

20

1928

The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.

Age

Date

Event

4

1912

The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.

5

1913

Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant

6

1914

The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed

15

1923

Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"

15

1923

Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes

16

1924

Insecticides are used for the first time on crops

18

1926

Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket

19

1927

The first television transmission was announced in England

20

1928

Big bang theory was introduced

28

1936

The first regular television broadcast happens in England

30

1938

Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission

38

1946

The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes

39

1947

Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor

Age

Date

Event

4

1912

White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.

5

1913

NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures

9

1917

NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.

11

1919

NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.

30

1938

NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.

31

1939

NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States

33

1941

NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.

Age

Date

Event

1

1909

The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)

2

1910

Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.

19

1927

Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.

21

1929

Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October

22

1930

Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.

24

1932

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.

25

1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!

26

1934

Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.

26

1934

Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.

27

1935

Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.

31

1939

Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.

35

1943

Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.

36

1944

On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")

37

1945

President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

Age

Date

Event

1

1909

The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe

6

1914

World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.

9

1917

Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.

11

1919

The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.

12

1920

Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.

30

1938

Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.

31

1939

Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.

37

1945

World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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